Guild Wars 2

nolop.8095:

They’ll fix it in the next patch, here are the relevant Patch notes:

Necromancer

• Fleshgolem: Fixed Tooltip to better reflect the skills functionality:
  “Summon a Fleshgolem that has a 20% chance to attack your target with crippling claws.”

Where did you see that it would be in the next patch? got a link to share?

I +1 this it is nuts already, how do you go three years with broken AI on a class where the minions are a STAPLE of the profession as pets are to rangers, or as phantasms are to mesmers?? makes zero sense to me why a simple fix or “bandaid” as someone mentioned can’t be applied…I mean seriously you guys just did a trait overhaul w the last patch you couldnt fix AI for one class mechanic?

Or better yet if it is unable to be fixed, TELL US so these posts stop coming up!

so…breathe fire….no fire condition…but phisical damage…from..FIRE.. am I missing somthing? I mean I know that the 4 burns but..YOUR LITTERALLY BREATHING A GIANT BLUE CONE OF FLAMES, AND NO BURNING?? Anet please enlighten me how that makes sense? Also its useless outside of raw damage except to help people who happen to run in front of you when your facing your target breathing fire (phisical damage) whitch is almost never idc how hard you try to argue that if you have somthing targeted your not helping someone cleanse unless they are right in front of you.

Also torches are usually the second half of a S/T build whitch means your also moving around alot, and playing a fast paced playstyle theres no room for you to sit there through the whole channel and hope to maybe clip someone and clear one condi for them…IMO it should do burning and phisical damage (obviously drop the phisical dmg by maybe half to balance.) and make the cleanse clear a condi or two if someone is near you (maybe 180 radius??) on activation, or better yet let it cleanse yourself aswell.

TLDR:why the eff is a giant cone of fire doing phisical damage and not any form of BURN?? and it needs to get fixed to do so cause it makes no sense.

just realizing this in game yeah definitely a reduction/nerf…dan i hope it works out with reapers if it stays this way..

wow this sounds fun.

thoughts?
gonna buy chill related stuff on tp?
builds???

Stace.1357:

k, my first post was trash canned so I’ll try again…..
Thanks to the new op update it’s made WvW pointless for me now, I can’t seem to roam anymore as guardian as I can’t defend the damage now, even invulnerable now you can take damage. I’ve tried different armor/ runes (at expense) and still failing. If you know of a build that can please feel free to post.
It’s also made fractals a joke to do, it was easy enough before this update….prolly the 2 things I did mostly now seem pointless, makes me regret pre purchasing GoT if this is how things are, I’ve played since GW1 Tyria, always hated them messing about with skills/ builds, sometimes I understand it’s necessary, more often it’s not.

This seems to be a repeating issue in the forums with individuals having a problem with the new system and having to adapt to a new meta, so I got an expert to look into this problem for you guys and here is his conclusion to what you can do to improve your results in WvW cause Im not a fractal frequenter…

Necro minions still dumb as a doorknob and unresponsive PLEASE FIX THIS ALREADY….

well idk about all of you but yeah it may take a second or two for my minions to strike a target (I play MM in WvW minus the healer and the useless rat things) BUT, a good way i’ve used MM effectively and had them start the fight when I do is as soon as you get close enough to the target that your flesh golem can flatten them out with it’s charge attack hit it, followed by the shadow field haunt and wait for the target to get up/ attack you to trigger the bone fiends rigor mortis immob attack when its auto is about to hit. the bone fiends rigor mortis functions exactly like a jungle spider immob venom if you guys are familiar with rangers and will function as such.

After that it’s basically whenever you guys need the skills proc them, I use the shadow fiend for stomps and to blind strong attacks whitch probably have a place somewhere in the mystical land of PvE (lol i only do silverwastes for PvE), the bone fiend to lock someone down before you use tainted shackles to double immob the target, and the golem to save your rear when you get hard CC’d and cant move or your stunbreak is on CD.

I really wish there was a MM guide explaining the ins-and outs of this playstyle and an in-depth coverage of each minion utility. Not just for me in WvW, but for all three areas of the game as well.

I already said my piece, no need to repeat it; gotta spec for stuff other than SA line to keep up, and play like an assassin wait for someone in a fight to get low and pounce then dissapear or if your an evasion thief, blink away. whats the issue your prob used to just insta cleansing condis by simply going stealth now u gotta trait and gear for it just like everyone else and honestly i wouldn’t complain, cause mesmers got only I think 2 or 3 ways to cleanse condis and two that I know of require a utility slot you got a better deal than them :/

Warhawk.7095
WvW Roamer, lover, fighter, and reckless glass cannon

I see why my comment upset you..lol

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ft-LOumBOlA/hqdefault.jpg

^^^ An expert diagnosis of this issue

T raw.4658:

Dusk.4708:

Gasp we gotta actually try to use skills effectively instead of just click stealth all the conditions are gone gg noob! Maybe try using withdraw like 90% of the community does which cleanses all soft cc (immob,chill,cripple) IN ADDITION to SE which cleanses the damaging condis and omg here’s a thought dont get pro L33t and think you can insta kill everything anymore and actually play smart.

got an experts opinion on this issue here’s his response
http://new2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/5371127+_4b760e0502231c5266e8180e330ffada.png

After watching your videos I must say I hope you’ve improved drastically before making these kinda statements.

yes I have, do you realize how old those vids are? its well over a year or two for each one, and its not really an insult to anyone if you took it that way, it more of a “quit your pitchin and adapt already” statement im sick of seeing complaints on these forums that the class is unplayable, it is just put in the effort to improve and you’ll have positive outcomes.

Gasp we gotta actually try to use skills effectively instead of just click stealth all the conditions are gone gg noob! Maybe try using withdraw like 90% of the community does which cleanses all soft cc (immob,chill,cripple) IN ADDITION to SE which cleanses the damaging condis and omg here’s a thought dont get pro L33t and think you can insta kill everything anymore and actually play smart.

got an experts opinion on this issue here’s his response
http://new2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/5371127+_4b760e0502231c5266e8180e330ffada.png

sorry to burst your bubbles guys but….

Thief with staff (PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE ACTUAL STAFF) http://i.imgur.com/xA8qvVk.png

source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3avbrp/current_images_for_all_elite_specializations/

and the code for the staff in-game—→ [&C6EXAAA=]

your welcome.

I agree that the old mimic needs to come back the new one is next to useless and i have yet to see any memser use it effectively in a competitive environmanet like wvw or pvp

trying to find a good CI power build that isn’t squishy and works very well when solo roaming as in it doesn’t have problems dealing w 2v1 situations that can be won, I have been very fond of mantras, S/S, and GS. If that could be of some help I would be very happy Norn. Also, this is currently what I am running and this will be for WvW mainly…

>http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAscRlsnpNtNqxGNcrRipxY6eiJnTVFpCoklMOA-TFyEwAz3fIwDAIpyvBHBQJIK9BpU/BgJIGnCASBI2WL-w

I lol everytime I see these posts, bottom line, learn how to fight a thief before you complain about their CLASS MECHANIC. Wanna know how to fight a thief? kitten them off mentally, just walk away from wherever they stealth and if they attack you AoE/burst them and if they run away let them! Eventually their patience will run thin and they will go HAM to try and kill you without dying which is when you open up a can of whoopass and drop them OR…..they say the heck with it, and go find another victim to toy with PROBLEM SOLVED.

thanks for the quick response im going to slightly reconsider the WH now, but still I really am enjoying the setup I have right now cause they never see the 3 corrupt boon strip coming w spinal shivers lol, its hilarious but take a look at this and tell me what you think: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW7djc00bbPNG3webigBRqWR/IwEq3+MKA-TFTEAByo+jc7PE8FBAAzAjob4IlDHcEAmSJRzPAguUCCmpmgUiRKAYWDA-w

great video man first of all, also I would like an opinion in the fact that you use warhorn for the life force and for the interrupt towards perplexity, SO..my two questions are if I wasn’t running perplexity, do you think that a focus would be a good alternative? Im not sure if the LF regen from warhorn is 2% PER IMPACT, or if its just a flat 2% overall, and the 4 on focus leeches 4% per bounce and the 5 is devastating on builds centered around might stacking, protection (eles), a lot of stability(warriors and guards), and regen.

It also applies chill whitch disrupts almost all types of builds with the CD Debuff and both skills are on reliably short cooldowns. so if I could get your input on this and anyone else that would like to give be an opinion, I would appreciate it! and once again excellent content on this video make more!

Skullface.7293:

Hmm why the “(NOT LB :O)” from the title? It actually takes more skill to be good at zerker ranger versus good players.

Things to note in the video, I see that you let your pet die very often. You have to pay more attention to your pet’s life bar, since they are a great part of your damage output. I also wouldn’t recommend taking cats for roaming since they die too quickly once you get more than one guy on you, unless you run beastmaster traits.

Also don’t waste time trying to stomp a thief, they will just port and stealth with their downed abilities. Just continue bursting them until they are dead.

in those two clips i was not managing my pet so yeah thats a good thing to note, but i do still run crit-type pets for the phisical aspect of the build and the constant regen and protection that said pet gets from the constant “guard” shouts, keeps them up 90% of the time thanks for the input though i do take it into consideration for future recordings.

Hey guys, ive posted a few videos on the forums before, but im usually not too keen on throwing them out every few weeks due to other things i deal with in life, but they are alot of fun to do in my free time…so here is a build that was created by a friend of mine that i tweaked a little bit to my liking and dubbed it the “Cond-E-Vasion” build, as well as a thief clip at the end. enjoy!

was just interested in any of the recipes that are in the shop for the new events, there are a few on the wiki but i wanna know what the exact stats are if anyone has them and has crafted it please share before i bust my kitten farming for the T3 recipes.

(P.S one in specific is the stuffed nopales)

Im glad someone else still kicks kitten w d/d in this meta all my guildies make fun of me cause i still run it meanwhile i destroy more people than them in WvW lol very good editing im trying to get a different program for my vids as well,

I want insight on this as well, im assuming it will lower back to the normal price of 1800 gems for a very high pop. server on tuesday, but still…

Any idea on what type of build can be pulled out with this gear? pref. the weapons if there has to be different stat gear involved…

(tbh, i got an ascended weapon chest drop and its shaman so yeah..)

Ok thats somthing i needed clarified, and i just tried out the river drakes lightning and my god that does alot of dmg if it hits, also whitch drake do you think would be good to use i was looking towards either the confusion drake or the river but im not sure,

Even if i don’t have access to alot of power, do you still think that using a drake with their main dmg output as direct damage would it still work good? I use bear mostly for shake it off and the absorption from protect me, then have fear wolf for breathing room and knockdowns.

jcbroe.4329:

Any “utility” that a bear provides is heavily outweighed by the fact that it’s a bear, meaning that it does nothing outside of tank. If you need a tanky pet, go with a drake.

so you’d rather use a drake that has to stand in place to use its f2 ability in a cone and can’t take as much punishment as a type of bear, rather than use a bear whitch not only is tanky, but can take a beating when i use “protect me” as an anti-burst utility, and have an AoE condi clear on a short CD……doesn’t make much sense to me but, if it makes you feel better i use a black bear sometimes! ;D

thank you for the feedback everyone.

Also solrik, it is my version of the regen bunker that I am just showcasing for others, I like to look back at the great fights that i’ve had and when I throw my own little tricks into an already fun way to play a class these videos are the result, I know many people play it but im giving an insight on my playstyle because not only for rangers but ANY class: you can copy a build, but you can never copy someones playstyle.

Hey rangers, my name that I am known by is Zero the Silent, I make videos requested by my guildmates, friends, and fans of mine that happen across my videos. I showcase some personal builds that i tweak to work in large scale group battles and skirmishes, recently, I got bored of my engineer and thief(whitch i also have videos of) so I decided that i was going to take my ranger whitch i only ever used in Spvp and rank him up for WvW. This video is a response to those who say that “rangers are next to useless in group fights!” and to prove it, me and my guildmate are only using rangers and its just me and him, nobody else!! (a pug or two join the fights but thats uncontrollable).

Nature’s Might: A Ranger Montage——https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZnoK3BsJok

Im going to keep it short and to the point for you guys, i have questioned many other ranger players that i know and we all agree with the fact that this particular shout says:

“Instead of attacking, your pet will protect you by absorbing all damage you would take.”

ALL Damage…

well this is not the case, it only protects your from regular damage, not conditions or AoE, this doesn’t make much sense for it to say ALL damage if thats the case.
Now, a fix to make this shout negate all damage like the tooltip clearly states should be applied, and for those of you ready to say things like “oh, that would make them overpowered with the stone signet too!” or “dude i do no damage to rangers now thats not fair!” well guess what, now you’ll actually have to learn to fight both the pet AND the ranger so that when the ranger DOES pop the shout, the pet will already be low enough that the full damage negation will not work. Also those of you questioning the condition aspect of this argument if it were to be changed to take condition damage in addition to direct damage, it would only be the condition damage applied AFTER the shout has been activated, so that all condition damage currently affecting the player will still be active and not removed.

I would really like to see this change implemented or at least have the tooltip fixed to say that it only negates direct damage and not AoE or Conditions, please give me your opinions and lets see if we can make this happen!

Hey fellow thieves, im back with my second vid i recently had some bad in-game issues with my guild as well as real life stuff, but anyway this is my second video if you have any requests that i should focus on for the viewers benefit next video, please let me know! enjoy guys!

MonMalthias.4763:

Please refer to (and bump with your own suggestions) the following threads:

• Turret Bugs

• Turret Hitboxes

• General Turret PvX Discussion Thread

Posting negativity doesn’t get you anywhere.

there is no issue with hitboxes, bugs are completely known just not acted upon except a select few, and it IS for balance as in they need to be balanced correctly and not be useless in anything other than maybe Spvp and the occasional PvE this is the whole point of the post. like Mnemesis.8257 said, “why fix it if we could just slap a bandage on it” whitch is 100% what is going on right now.

These need to be completely revamped im sure many other engi players feel the same way, these things do not do squat compared to their kit counterparts whitch do tons of damage, have good utility, and are just better overall. I have been trying to make a viable turret build for WvW for ages and everytime i get within arms reach of perfection, it gets nerfed. Honestly, it is aggrivating that turrets get nerfed cause VERY FEW PEOPLE USE THEM!
examples of this:
I had one where i would pair the rocket turret with the flame turret and use the rifle and net turret to keep them near it and let them burn, WELL lets take burning off rocket turrets and at that time net turret was already a bit buggy.
Next one, I had all my utilities as turrets paired with perplexity runes and accelerant packed turrets so it would ALWAYS trigger the intterupt effect on the runes and id stack confusion perfectly with my weapons and turrets WELL lets go and put an ICD on perplexity runes cause of kitten one-arm bandit perplex thieves spamming headshot..
AND NOW im using a cc oriented one using net turret, thumper, and rocket with a mortar to try and hang back a bit WELL in march the net turret is losing duration whitch makes it less reliable..
I MEAN REALLY, how many more times are turrets gonna get squashed it is very annoying already! Please look into buffing them in some way, shape, or form and fixing any remaining bugs still in them in the next patch for people like me that are bored with the meta and want to actually make use of utilities other than just kits and elixir might stacking. I mean they are there but never get used, what is the point of them even existing if thats the case?

Brew Pinch.5731:

Just increase the auto range to 600 so there’s a better chance to actually land that final tick and apply the burn.

Additionally, having Flame Blast explode on contact with a surface rather than disappear would be excellent.

Those relatively simple changes would do wonders for the weapon.

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Fixing the whole “shooting into the ground” thing that affects every ranged weapon in the game will also be great when ANet get around to it.

What he said, the range is one of my most hated things about it and i use it with a burst build so it is frustrating that i gotta chase someone like a crazy person with it to hit them the best use for it right now is tower/keep defense when specced for burst. when your out in the field is very situational.. increase range to 600 buff damage a bit OR make it burn each tick would make it viable for once!

Hi, I am a very discouraged theorycrafter, I am trying to make a healing support build that can do some damage, and still pull off some great support while doing it, now I get it that I cant do both but I try to be supportive with my damage output, I use nades with 2.5k attack(yeah I went there :O) but only for the conditions and vulnerability stacking for my team. I use dwayna runes so whenever I use my heal turret chain followed by the toolbelt it leaves a massive amount of regen. heal bombs as well whitch pop for about 317 each.

I just would like some insight on what you think I should do to fix this, cause I am still being utterly destroyed with all of the defense that I have and I play alot squishier classes and do just fine so am I missing something here??

this is the exact build I am using currently: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalIqiY3zyuF17ISoH239pWiKoffeIXpFEC-jUCBIOBkkGgoGMTqIas1NFRjVPDQvATtaR1eFMa1yA4PHA-w

this needs to be fixed we got time for sales instead of getting the server lag issues fixed me and multiple people on my home server can barely play now due to this please fix it already it has been an ongoing issue that just never seems to go away

Slcrisis.6930:

People need to stop throwing around bandwagoner terms without actually knowing how things work.

Mmmhm, people nowadays just flat out refuse to accept that they were outplayed if they were killed by a Thief (and other classes such as Necro and Eles too lately), it’s auto “omg I died the class MUST be OP nerf nerf nerf”.

People call for pointless Thief nerfs so much lately even after they’ve been nerfed, that everyone still think they’re OP when in fact they’ve been nerfed to the ground and it’s the majority of the good players who stuck through it and adapted to the nerf that are still coming out on top in fights.

If Thief players can LEARN TO ADAPT to countless of nerfbats I’m sure these whiners can learn to counter a Thief eventually, if not then it’s their funeral and Thieves everywhere will just be feasting on dem tears.

couldn’t have said it better myself it’s ridiculous how many times people cry when they die to a thief but when its another class, oh its all good, and the earlier posts are right you need to use utilities correctly if you want to maintain close to 95% permastealth but doing damage along with it? nope it cant happen now L2P, also theres a simple way to deal with d/p genius, STAND IN THE RING HE WILL LEAP, HIT YOU AND REVEAL! COMMON SENSE.

met.9653:

Meh, video with some stupid music, kid you must use google and type word tutorial, maybe you learn what this means.

Well like i said it wasn’t supposed to be for the public, it was for my guild members who are having alot of issues playing a thief so before you tell others to look stuff up why don’t you learn how to read before commenting..

and btw, they all loved the video and thats all I care about not a trolls opinion on it.

Hey guys i just figured I would share my video that i originally created for my guild and a few others who are having trouble playing their thieves as they are not thief mains, I will be making more in the future but this is what I have for now these clips are UNEDITED so you get to see me mess up! It was fun finding the clips as it was collecting them up and making this montage I hope you guys enjoy it!

FeelsAlright.5860:

Why doesn’t endure pain prevent point capture? “protect me” shout on ranger does. Invuln on guardian does. Stealth does. Stupid.

…..your still susceptible to conditions that’s why,

“protect me!” makes your pet a meat shield basically,
“renewed focus” makes you invulnerable for 4 seconds (correct me if I am wrong with the duration)
Stealth well.. obviously, YOU CAN’T SEE EM! so it wouldn’t be right to let it slide,

This looks very nice man, i’ve been using d/d for ages now (never liked D/P too much init use for one BS,) and i want to switch it up a bit i love S/D never really went in deep with S/P, any other tricks using S/P I should know about?

also, a video for this build would be great if possible!

Visirale.6097:

Dusk.4708:

Visirale.6097:

[NV] IS TOO STRONK!

that’s why you got slaughtered along with 3 other guilds 3 times at NW tower @ SBI BL and while you were sieging said tower, we took bay and hills for 3 ticks and counting from what I see on millennium, ty for the 3 exotics I got so far!

Mmmk we had some good bags from you all too. We took NW tower eventually… I was mostly commenting on CORE’s merger with NV to form the NA-OCX supercoverage guild.

ya no kidding, you were attacking bay and hills at same time when I logged off a few minutes ago, but I saw some HOPE peeps with you @ bay on your 3rd attempt to take it.

Visirale.6097:

[NV] IS TOO STRONK!

that’s why you got slaughtered along with 3 other guilds 3 times at NW tower @ SBI BL and while you were sieging said tower, we took bay and hills for 3 ticks and counting from what I see on millennium, ty for the 3 exotics I got so far!

LonePanda.9283:

[Hero] your guild is fairweather trash, spawncamping while /laughing when you have twice our numbers is nothing but poor sportsmanship. Everytime I’ve encountered you with even numbers, we’ve wiped you. Learn to play.

If you guys spent as much time nailing down a good strategy rather than crying on the forums AND Golem rushing your keep at least 3 times and failing, it wouldn’t have taken you all night to get back your keep, and last time i checked, we pulled you guys through hell and back on Dragonbrand cause you were the fairweathers who didn’t play whenever it was a tough match up frankly i find it upsetting that after all we did for you you guys you’d say something like that, but who was in the battlegrounds busting their behinds when we fought Blackgate? Hero, who was there when we fought SoR TWICE? Hero, so i wouldn’t talk too much about being fairweathers my friend.

P.S I remember many fights where you had double our numbers and you ran for the hills as we ate your tail..

this guy is so strong and has so much hp and is nearly impossible to kill with less than 50 people, and the best part is; he doesn’t drop squat worth the effort that was put into the fight that has taken me and everyone i run the labyrinth with 10-15 minutes to take him down. he either needs to get nerfed or he needs to drop better stuff there’s no reason to fight him except as a time holder for the other gates to spawn or to get the daily chest from him please look into this anet,

coglin.1867:

Just to make sure your aware of this, but as with a vast majority of the sigils, they only work in combat. So, if your running around Lions Arch, spamming dodges to burn your endurance, just so you can weapon swap, and see endurance refill, you need to be aware that they do not work out of combat.

I run one of these sigils in one of my weapons, but I have had no issues with it at all today myself.

i am using the superior version, and i am aware of that, i used it a few days ago with a sword main hand and it was fine i used it with my pistols now, and it doesnt work ive been testing it in spvp and now i don’t understand why its not working..

so i had a build i was working on for my thief involving energy runes on two sets of weapons, ( not giving it away ;] ) and i had done a test of it in Spvp a few days ago and it was fine now i have the money i need to make it so i went in one last time to make sure it was right and i am not getting any endurance back when i weapon swap and it is very upsetting because i have worked on this for a little under a week now, and its now buggy, i don’t know if its because of the maintenance last night or what, but can you possibly take a look at it?

**I had also asked my friends who run guardians and warriors if they were having the same issue, and they said “yea my sigils aren’t working either” so its not just me having this issue..

Thanks in advance,

Yes im on SBI and i have terrible lag, i mean i run this game at like 90+ FPS with a good desktop, and i don’t understand how i can have lag like this it is extremely frustrating especially due to the fact that i need to have fluid combos going (im a thief) to survive in WvW and i can’ due to this, Anet please try to fix this bug you forgot with your WvW mishap.

I think a monk class would be cool but im trying to get ideas for a heavy here, and I think that a warmaster class would be a nice addition like adine said although it definitely would be a bit op at first but anets good at fixing that…